Once Upon a Not So Happily Ever After

By: Amber

Educ 355


Prompt:

Having a Happily Ever After is always a main portion to every fairytale, but sometimes this is not always the case. Thinking about your favorite fairytale and how their happily ever after ended, could it change? How would the story end? How would this change the mood of the character? Would they live their new ending better? As you write your alternative ending to a happily ever after fairytale, write in the perspective of what is happening to the main character throughout the story.

Be sure to:

  • Introduce characters in the story
  • Have a beginning, middle, and end
  • State the problem in your new fairytale
  • Add descriptive details in the story
  • Discuss the events that are happening in the fairytale

Writing Standards:

W.CCR.3. Write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequences

a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that uphold naturally.
b. (Using dialogue)Descriptive of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or shows the responses of characters to situation
d. Provide a sense of closure

Reflection:

Being able to work with the Voicethread was actually fun. I am the type of person that does not like to record or listen to myself talk, but I feel that this is a great tool to use for students in my future classroom. The ability to do different things on the voicethread amazed me and it was very simple to figure out. Adding this voicethread into my future classroom I think would be fun for the students to create and enjoy making their own fairytales.